Product Description

A spin-off prequel feature film, featuring the Minions as the main characters, is scheduled to be released on July 10, 2015.[11] Written by Brian Lynch, it will be directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healey.[12]Sandra Bullock will voice Scarlet Overkill, the villain of the film[13]and Jon Hamm will voice her husband and inventor, Herb Overkill.[14]

The film will focus on the Minions, which are yellow henchmen who have existed since the beginning of time, serving history's most ambitious villains. Destroying all bad guys through their ineptitude, the story picks up in 1968, where three of the Minions set out to find a new evil master. Arriving at a villain convention, they compete for the right to be henchmen for Scarlet Overkill, a stylish and ambitious villain determined to dominate the world and become the first female super-villain.